In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.
When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.
I think somewhere in the '90s, it started to shift, and you started to see a lot of film and television actors doing theater, and producers using the notoriety of the film and television actors to sell tickets.
Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that
Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.
Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!
I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]
Food television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous.
New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.
I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.
I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.
Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.
I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.
Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.
I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.
The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.
The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.
I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.
There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality and high quality work. But you're always concerned that the time demands on television will interrupt or interfere with your film work.
Modern technology has conveniently provided a measuring stick by which you can determine whether or not you are conducting your business in an acceptable, ethical way. . . . You can ask yourself: How will I feel if my business dealings today are secretly recorded on a hidden video camera, and appear on this evening's television newscast for all to see?
The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything.
I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
